No automatic mail check – posts only if I "Run Postie"

Have you read https://postieplugin.com/faq/postie-checking-email/

If you disable all the other plugins does it work again?

The problem is that there is no mention of Cron at all when I click the Test Config button:

Postie Configuration Test
Clock Tests

This shows what time it would be if you posted right now

Post time: 2015-10-05 05:30:09

Encoding

default_charset:

DB_CHARSET: utf8

DB_COLLATE:

WordPress encoding: UTF-8

Postie encoding: UTF-8

Connect to Mail Host

Sucessful POP3 connection on port 110

No waiting messages

As for disabling all other plugins – I have not tried that. I would need to set up a separate test blog for that and I am not sure that would produce the quality benchmark of the problem.

Something is definitely wrong, you should see a lot of information between “Postie Configuration Test” and “Clock Tests”

Please try reinstalling Postie. All your settings will be retained.

Deactivating and activating again did not change anything in the Test Config output. Does deleting and downloading again make sense? Will it retain the settings?

Yes, delete and reinstall. Deactivating doesn’t really do anything except remove the cron job.

You might look in your web server logs to see if there are any PHP errors as well.

Tried deleting and reinstalling. Same result. No errors or warnings (with error reporting at ‘8191’).

I’m out of ideas. Sorry.

Tried deactivating all plugins – same result on Test Config.

I revisited the code and I was making an assumption that wasn’t true.

In your wp-config.php file add the following line

define('POSTIE_DEBUG', true);

Then click Test Config

I’ve just noticed your reply. Big news. It started outputting more info in Test Config after I upgraded PHP from 5.3 to 5.4. Could the problem be in PHP 5.3? Here is how it looks with POSTIE_DEBUG = false:

Postie Configuration Test

Postie Version: 1.7.18

WordPress Version: 4.3.1

PHP Version: 5.4.45-1~dotdeb+6.1

OS: Linux mx2.example.com 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 x86_64

POSTIE_DEBUG: Off

Time: 2015-10-26 20:28:44 GMT

Cron: On

Alternate Cron: Off

Clock Tests

This shows what time it would be if you posted right now

Post time: 2015-10-26 20:28:44

Encoding

default_charset:

DB_CHARSET: utf8

DB_COLLATE:

WordPress encoding: UTF-8

Postie encoding: UTF-8

Connect to Mail Host

Successful POP3-SSL connection on port 995

# of waiting messages: 0

And here is how it looks with POSTIE_DEBUG = true:

Postie Configuration Test

Postie Version: 1.7.18

WordPress Version: 4.3.1

PHP Version: 5.4.45-1~dotdeb+6.1

OS: Linux mx2.example.com 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 x86_64

POSTIE_DEBUG: On

Time: 2015-10-26 20:30:27 GMT

Error log: /home/clients/xxx/html/PHP_errors.log

TMP dir: /tmp/

Postie is in /home/clients/xxx/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/postie/

Cron: On

Alternate Cron: Off

Clock Tests

This shows what time it would be if you posted right now

filter_Delay: post date: 2015-10-26 20:30:27 / 2015-10-26 20:30:27 (gmt)

Post time: 2015-10-26 20:30:27

Encoding

default_charset:

DB_CHARSET: utf8

DB_COLLATE:

WordPress encoding: UTF-8

Postie encoding: UTF-8

Connect to Mail Host

checking

pop3: connection string – {dmail-071.servers.eqx.misp.co.uk:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}

pop3: disabling GSSAPI

pop3: connected

Successful POP3-SSL connection on port 995

stdClass Object
(
[flags] => 31
[messages] => 0
[recent] => 0
[unseen] => 0
[uidnext] => 1
[uidvalidity] => 1445891427
)

# of waiting messages: 0

pop3: closing connection

I will know this Saturday whether PHP 5.4 has fixed the main problem or has just improved the output of Test Config feature.